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>&#13;      There are a suite of Unix utilities for searching Bugzilla from the 
      command line. They live in the 
      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>contrib/cmdline</TT
> directory.
      There are three files - <TT
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>query.conf</TT
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      <TT
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>buglist</TT
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>&#13;        These files pre-date the templatization work done as part of the
        2.16 release, and have not been updated.
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>&#13;      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>query.conf</TT
> contains the mapping from
      options to field names and comparison types. Quoted option names
      are <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"grepped"</SPAN
> for, so it should be easy to edit this
      file. Comments (#) have no effect; you must make sure these lines
      do not contain any quoted <SPAN
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>"option"</SPAN
>.
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>&#13;      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>buglist</TT
> is a shell script that submits a
      Bugzilla query and writes the resulting HTML page to stdout.
      It supports both short options, (such as <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"-Afoo"</SPAN
>
      or <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"-Rbar"</SPAN
>) and long options (such
      as <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"--assignedto=foo"</SPAN
> or <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"--reporter=bar"</SPAN
>).
      If the first character of an option is not <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"-"</SPAN
>, it is
      treated as if it were prefixed with <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"--default="</SPAN
>.
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>&#13;      The column list is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable.
      This is equivalent to the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Change Columns"</SPAN
> option
      that is available when you list bugs in buglist.cgi. If you have
      already used Bugzilla, grep for COLUMNLIST in your cookies file
      to see your current COLUMNLIST setting.
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>&#13;      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>bugs</TT
> is a simple shell script which calls
      <TT
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>buglist</TT
> and extracts the
      bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix
      <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id="</SPAN
>
      turns the bug list into a working link if any bugs are found.
      Counting bugs is easy. Pipe the results through 
      <B
CLASS="command"
>sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}'</B
>
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>&#13;      Akkana Peck says she has good results piping 
      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>buglist</TT
> output through 
      <B
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>w3m -T text/html -dump</B
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